jj\" (.HO. W. BOWMAN
SEW SERIES.
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From the Home Journal.
The Graves of Long Ago.
st.pk not my love with earnest words,
Alas it is in vain;
Thou can-t not to my heart ve-tore
Its sunny youth attain,
Thou can't not but the withered flowers
V\'aice from then autumn tomb,
Tutjreet the morning as of yore.
In all their life and bioom.
Thou can't not bid departed hopes
Renew their early glow ;
My summer sunshine faded o'er
The graves of long ago.
My hours of bliss have passed away,
I've laid them all to rest ;
V.ach with her crowded happy dreams,
Close folded to her brea-t.
Their pallid lips can breathe no more
In whispers of the past;
Their shining eyes are sottl v closed—
They sleep in peace at hist.
I've heaped above ibeir resting place,
Indifference, chill n snow;
Mv brightest joys lie buried in
The graves of long ago.
flushed are the glad and gushing notes,
That hailed my matin prime;
The jov-he||s, that around my way
Rang out their merry chime.
And though the holy sounds of night.
Fall gentiv as the dew,
Shedding into my soul a peace
My girlhood never knew;
Those merry tones of glee no more
Are mine; but calmer so,
Mv heart keeps silent vigil hy
i'he giaves of long ago.
A', hat is ilomc without a Mother!
BY ALICti HAWTHORNE.
What is Hour, without a mother,
What are all the joys we me^t.
When her loving snide no longer
Greet' the coming of our feet !
The days seem long, the nights are dreary.
And time roll* slowly on ;
And, oh.' hoiv few are childhood's pleasures,
When her gentle care is gone!
Things we prize are first to vanish ;
Hearts we love to pa-s away,
And how -oon, e'en in our childhood,
We beheld her turning grey ;
Her eve ttrrows dim. "her step i* slovr,
Her joys of earth are passed
And sometimes e'er we |.-arn to know her
Shu has breathed on eatlh her la-t.
Oide< hearts may have their sorrows.
Griefs that quickly die away .
Rut a mother lost in childhood
Grieves the heait from day to dav.
We n>:-5 her kind, her willing hand.
Her fond and earne.t care ;
And, oh! how dark is life around us •
What is Home without her 1 iierc !
THE BI3LH.
Many sparkling passages occur in "Gilfiltan's
Bards ofthe Bible." The following are illustra
tions :
Its words and if s thoughts are alike poetical ;
it has fathered around its central truthsnli nat
uralbeatitv and interest ; it is a temple with one
altar and one God, hut illumined by a thousand
different lights, and studded with a thousand
• '(laments, it lias su hut one dec
laration to make, but it utters it in the voices of
the creation. Shining forth from the excellent
glory, its light has be-n reflected t a myriad of
intervening objects, till it has become attemper**!
for our earthly vision. It now beams upon us
at once from the heart of man, and from (he
countenance of nature. It has arrayed itself in
the charms of fiction. It has gathered new
beauties from the work of creation, and new
•warmth and new power from the very passions
w clay. It has pressed into its service the very
animals ofthe fores', the flowers of the field,
'' "stars of heaven—all the elements of nature.
lion spurning the sand of the desert, the
wild roe leaping over the mountains, the lamb
led in silence to the slaughter, the goat speeding
,f > the wilderness, the ros" blossoming in Sharon,
' " lily drooping in the valley, the apple-tree
totting under its fruit, the great rock shadow
ing a weary land, the river gladdening a drv
place, the moon and the morning star, Carmei
v the sea and Tanbor in the mountains, the
from the womb of the morning, the rain
T r ii the mown grass, the rainbow encompassing
'sfk place, the light of God's shadow-, the
'binder of His voice, the wind and the earth
quake His footsteps—all such varied objects are
lh aue as if naturally designed from their crea
huii to represent Him to whom the book and all
; > emblems point. Thus the spirit of the book
• ransacked creation to lay ils treasures on
• u ' ; H'ah's altar, united the innumerable rays
far-streaming glory on the hili of Calvary,
•••••< woven a garland for the bleeding brow of
■•marine!, the flowers of which have been culled
' m the garden of the universe.
|r ie power ofthe Bible over man has been
I and obstinately resisted ; but resisted in
" :n - lor ages has this artless, loosely-piled
■tie book been exposed to the lire of the keenest
■•es'igations—a fire, meanwhile, which has
' r '>utned contemptuously the mythology ofthe
:ia d, the husbandry of the Georgies, the histori
j * ru fh ot Livy, the fables of Shaster, the
'-•mud and the Koran, the artistic merit of
:'; a 7 a P°pular poem, the authority of manv a
' -k°f philosophy and science. And yet there
•" Bible he S unhurt, untouched, with not one
j 'ls pages singed and not even the smell of
, H having passed upon it. Many an attempt
' k'f n made to scare away the Fiery Pillar of
1 wanderings, to prove it a mere natural pro
• ..; 1 , 01 l^e w, ' f l er ness; but still night after
m "t it rises, like one of the ever-shining stars
ofthe vanguard ofthe great march of man, the !
old column gliding slow, but goilding certainly i
to future lands of promise, botii in the life that j
is and that which Cometh hereafter.
While other books are planets shining with
reflected radiance, this book, like the sun, shines
with kindred and unborrowed light.
CMher hooks after shining their little season
rnav perisli iu (lames furor than those which
destroyed the Alexandrian library: this must in
essence remain tineas gold, but inconsumable as
asbestos in the general conflagration.
Loss of Hie Ship State RigT.'s,
The following abstract of a letter from Cap
lain I). L. Wilcox, of Philadelphia, gives the
particulars of the loss ! trie fj a— ship State
Rights, front that port, hound for Liverpool:—
'T left the capes with a fine breeze, and ev
erything favoring a successful voyage ; hut the
second day out a gale commenced from N. N. j
W. The ship was made as snug as possible,
with all her sales reefed, hut about midnight the ■
wind blew with such fury that 1 was compell
ed to scud before the gale. The sea, however,
broke ovet the vessel, rendering this dangerous, ,
and she was at last brought to. She laid very
v* e|| for a while, tut she shipped a sea occasion
ally, one of which earth d away one of the ;
quarter boats, stove the poop bulkheads, and
washed overboard everything belonging to the
second cabin passengers. At two o'clock A.
M., the wind blew a perfect hurricane, and 1
was compelled to take in the only sale J had
previously ventured to carry (the main topsail.)
and let her lay to under bare poles. During
the sight the second boat was hove ov<r the
stern and dashed to fragments: tire lung boat
was also broken to pieces on the house : so that
out of five boats onlv two remained. At 9 o'-
clock. A.M., a heave <e;i broke over the (Ji-ck,
which hove her on iier beam ends. The masts
were cut away ar.d site partly righted. 1' was
soon discovered that her hold had from lOtoi
12 feet of water in it. All hands were imme
diately placed at the pumps, four in number.—
The work at the pumps was continued rdl day
and the following night, without effect in les
sening the water. Every passenger except the
females took their turn at the pumps, and the
labor was continued f>r nineteen hours, with
the momentary prospect of the ship sinking.—
The next day was spent in throw ing cargo
overboard, in hopes of keeping the ship afloat.
In the evening the work at the pumps was re- !
snmec! : hut during the night they became chok- i
ed uilh corn from between the flecks, and all
hopes of escaping a wateTv grave seemed to he
over. The gale had m a degree .subsided but
the sea continued to threaten the ship with in
stant destruction. All hands went to work*
again at throwing the cargo overboard, in order
to lighten her—this l aving become our only
hope.
"The cheerful sound ol "sail, ho!" now
lightened every heart : but soon a few of the j
crew began to make preparations to clear awav
the licgit, and came aft (or the purpose. I ad
dressed f!i"t:., giving them praise lor their pre
vious good conduct, but bt them know that I
would command the ship to the last moment.—
As my arguments were backed by a six-shooter,
they r> treated to their posts, grumbling that .
••one life was as sweet as another," &.c. K.c.—
The work of throwing over cargo was resumed
and continued diet. At half pa<t 11. I then
despatched n hi at with n v first officer, four sai
lors and the ladies and children for the sail,
which was then about nine miles off. The sea
continued rough, though the gale had much sub- !
sided, In.! the h at could s-.ot safely carry more-,
than 12 out ofthe 3? on hoard. The boat was
soon lost to sight from us, and it was a long time 1
doubtful whether the boat would succeed in ;
reaching l;er or attracting her notice. As my
ship lay so low in the water Horn her masts be- ;
mg gone, we were i | course not seen, and could
not hope to be, unless the siii came nearer.—
We were however, after several hours of anx
ious watching, cheered bv the knowledge that
the sails had tacked to pick up the boat, and was
soon after heading for the wreck. As soon as I
discovered this, I despatched the only remaining
boat with the ballance of the passengers and
; lour more ofthe crew for the brig, then about
4 1 miles oil. At •"> o'clock, P. _M., the brig
lay-to under our lee. She proved to be the hiig
Speed, of Yarmouth, from Baltimore, bound to
Yarmouth, U. S. Our firs! boat was dash* dto
I i> res soon alter the passengers got on board so
that only the second Mat remained. The ship
roller! heavily, and it was an >♦ dangerous task
to embark in the boat. It uas finally acccita- ,
plished, without accident of am kind, and toe
brig filed away, leaving the wreck ol the State ,
Rights to tire mercy of the wind and waves.—
When we left her she bar! opened amidships ;
several hurts and a!x;t twenty feet of" her plank >
sheer was split, and she had settled to about 23 i
Ret, four more than she drew when we left
port, notwit'.standir g nil we had done to light
en her. J have above given a brief detail of
the circumstances attending the wreck of;
the State R igbts, which fortunately was not
attended with the loss of any ofthe lives placed ;
under my charge."
Heautif":?! sketch.
It was night, Jerusalem slept as quietly a- 1
mid her bills as a child upon the breast ol its
mother. The noiseless sentinel stood like a sta
tue at his post and the philosopher's lamp burned
dimly in the recess of his chamber.
But a darker night u as abroad upon the earth.
A moral darkness involved the nations in its
uniigbted shadows. Reason shed a faint glim
mering over the minds of men, like the cold
and inefficient shining of a distant star. The
immortality of man's spiritual nature was un
known, his relations to heaven undiscovered,
and his future destiny obscured in a cloud of
mystery.
It was at this period fwo forms of etherial
mould hovered over the land ofGod's chosen j
people. They seemU like siter angels sent to
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 185.1
j earth upon some embassy of love. The one j
was of majestic stature, and in the well formed j
limbs, which her snowy drapery hardly conceal- j
i ed, in her erect bearing and steady eve,exhib
ited the highest degree of strength and confi
dence. Her i ight arm was extended in an j
impressive gesture upwards where night appear- !
eri to have placed her darkest pavillion ; while'
on her left reclined her delicate companion, in
form and countenance the contrast ol the other, j
for she was drooping like the (lower, when nr.- i
moistened hy refreshing dews, and her bright '
but troubled eye scanned the air with ardent
but varying glances. Sudden!v a light like the
siiri flashed out from the heavens, and Faith and !
Hope hailed with exulting songs the ascending !
Star of Bethlelvm.
Years rolled away, and the stranger was seen
| in Jerusalem. He was a meek, unassuming man,
'■> hose happiness seemed to consist in acts of be
nevobmce to the human race. Tln-re were j
deep traces of sorrow on his countenance, though
no one knew why he grieved, lor he lived in !
the practice of every virtue, and v.as loved by
all the good and wise. Bv and by it was lU
mored that the stranger worked miracles; that i
the blind saw. the dumb spake, and the d. ad
leaped to lite at his touch : that when he com
manded, the ocean moderateri its chafing tide,:
and the very thunders articulated he is the Son ;
of God. Envy assailed him with the charge j
of sorcerv, am! the voice of impious judges con
demned him to death. Slowly and thickly
guarded he ascended the hill of Calvary. A
heavy cross bent lutn to the earth. But Faith
leaned upon his arm, and Hope, dipping her
pinions in his blood mounted to the skies.
Massachusetts Pryiug fcmtaiHee.
.TSaJiisjjr I'Oyc its a TSttnnery!
Testimony of the Lady Superior.
BOSTON, April 10, 1555.
The Legislative Special Committee, appoin
ted to investigate the charges against the Nun
nery Committee, held an adjourned meeting at
the State House this morning. At the opening
•of the meeting, the Chairman, Mr. Carpenter,
ol the Senate, stated that be was absent from
the Senate board at the time of his appointment
on the committee, and us he w as a party direct
ly interested in the investigation, he deemed it
to be bis duty to decline serving, which he
should do on the opening of the Seri3te. He
therefore called upon Mr. Grillin, nf Charles
town, of the House, to take th.* chair. The
committee hail summoned the ladies connected
with the school at Roxhurv, one of whom, tie
Lady Superior, Mary Aloysia, was present at
• the opening ofthe meeting.
The Lady Superior was accompanied by Sam
uel May, Esq., who stated that she had with her
a statement of the transaction, signed by five
ladies who preside over the school.
The Sergeant-at-Arms then administered an
oatli to the Ladv Superior, alter which the
statement was read by the chairman ofthe con -
; mil tee. The statement is mainly tile same as
that published in the .7 irertis'r. The coinmit
tee then proceeded to an examination ofthe La
dy Superior, who testified as follows :
I should judge that the committee numbered
about twenty individuals: I attended them in
their examination of the house ; one ol the com
mittee, who gave his name r.s Mr. Evans, turn
ed after the others had left and told me !;-• was
once a Catholic in St. Man 's Church, Balti
more, and that he desired to return to the church;
he asked me if T would give htm permission to
--visit me, saving b<* would like to have some
pleasant conversation with me: ] declined giv
! ing him permission : he asked if the Bishop
; would object to his- visiting me; 1 said fie would
not, though we received but few visiters: lie
• shook banc's with me twice and appeared very
j familiar: 1 was much offended at his conduct
tiien, and feel more indignant every time I
: think of it : 1 told the committee when they
j entered the room that a ladv was sick; when the
1 members ofthe committee entered he) chamber
I was present: they pent so c.iosiy to lie.- that
she has since stilted that she felt their breath : I
had previously desired the patient to remain
quiet, as if asleep, if the committee entered:
while I was conducting a part of the' committee,
other members of it were going about the house
bv themselves, examining the closets, sinks, fee.
1 was not present when one of the gentlemen
tool, hold of the rosary. I'jiou being asked if
she could riiscribe the gentleman who desired an
intervi-w wiih her, the witness replied that she
; could not well describe him, but that she could
recognize Jiim if she saw him.
Mr. Evans, ofthe Senate, was then intro
duced, whereupon the witness said tl'.at he was
not the gentleman who requested the interview, 1
1 ami who gave his name. Subsequently, Mr.
Hiss, of Boston, was introduced, when the w it- :
ness said that was the gentleman who gave his
name a< Evans.
The Ladv Superior was then further question
ed hy Mr. Charles Hale, ofthe Jhlrertiner , as
j to whether she had read the articles in the ,hi
! vertiser, and whether she regarded the state-.
' inents therein as correct. The witness answer- j
ed in the affirmative to these questions.
Mr. Dawley, of the Senate committee, then
questioned the witness more particularly as to
the conduct ofthe committee on visiting the
chapel. She stated that the members ofthe
j committee to the number often had opened the
door before she arrived. She bad intended tu
have opened the door and admit the committee * ■
but the door was opened before she hud time to '
do so, and there were so many gentlemen about i
the door that she could not enter herself.— j
While in the chapel, the gentlemen were en- !
gaged in loud conversation, which she consid
ered very improper. The lady at her devotions
in the chapel was startled when the gentleman
entered, and attempted to leave by a door which
she found locked. One.of the gentlemen asked
| her several questions, which she declined an
swering in the chapel. The gentlemen followed
Freedom of Tltought and Opinion.
her without the chapel, when the conversation
was resumed.
Samuel May then interrogated the witness as
to the scene in the chapel, but her answer did
not vary materially from her previous testimo
ny .
i Several other gentlemen then put questions
fo the witness, when the meeting w as adjourned
to meet to-morrow morning at half-past nine n'
clock, to hear the testimony from the other la
dies ofthe institution.
fhe Lady Superior was accompanied hv a
sister of Bishop Fitzpatrick and by the Rev. Mr.
O'Brien.
From the Montrose i>smoerut of April stti.
More Exposures.
TO THE PUBLIC : —Reeling if my duty
to expose the Order of Know-Nothings, to
which I have been attached, I have thought
to do so publicly, that others rm;y take warn
ing and, be saved the disgrace which attends the
obligations of a member of that Order :
About the first of January last, T was invited to
join the Order in the township of new Milford.
The appointed night I was taken to the room
over the store of Mr. Morse. I was taken to
the ante-room where an officer of the Council
met and asked me if I was willing to take a
pledge to keep the secrets of the Order, which
I answered in the affirmative. I was then ta
ken to the Council room and asked the follow
ing qnesiions :
1. What is your name? 2. What is your
age? 3. Where is your residence? 4. in
your religions belief are you a Roman Catholic ?
Where were you horn ? (>. Where were
your parents born ' 7. 1 your wile a Roman
Catholic? H. Did either of your ancestors
take part in the American Revolution ? 9. Arc
you willing to use ail offices of honor, trust yr
profit, in tiie gift of the people : and do you
promise to vote for them to the exclusion of all
aliens and foreigners, and Roman Catholics in
particular, -or all State or government offices?
If). Who invited you to be present on this co
cas ion ■
i was told to lav rr.v band msm an open Bi
ble, in which was placed a Cress. This 1 obey
ed. Tiie following cath was then administered
to 'why the officer.
|We omit the oath for the reason that it
agrees precise!', with the oath ofthe first degrees
as published in Mr. VVau- n's statement last
week, and we are crowded for room.— Editors
Dm. ]
The signs and grips of th w Order were then
explained to me. [We omit the signs and grips,
fir the same reason that they also compare ex
actly with those published last Week.— 'Editors
Dem.]
The password Ido not recollect. The trav
elling password is "Yorktown," and the expla
nation. "tiie place of final victory." On giving
this, unci the name and residence of the person
travailing, he can enter any lodge in the Uni
ted States.
1 was instructed to always deny- being a
Know-Nothing, and told me that 3 could uo so,
fi>r Fiat was not their name, hut the right name
vonld Oe explained to me when ' should take
the second degree. 1 became so i '.sgusleb with
;fie thing that I concluded that the first r'geree
would answer my turn, and so withdrew. 1
therefore did nut get as deeply jr.to ti:e myste
ries of the Order as others have.
Tiie Scripture savs that "/;•• /</ deceit?th
makdii a tie" —and upon reflection I saw that
1 was sworn to lie when I denied being a
Know-Nothing, fortius is the name by which
the community know the Order.
After 1 was initiated I was told that I must
take no newspaper that opp >s-d the Order, and
was recommended to take the Montrose Repubii
c., as that was a paper worthy of our patron
age. Prospectuses for that paper were in the
Lodge, and all were recommended to take i! in
a Lodge Club, as we could get it cheaper, they
said, m that way.
What 1 haw seen of the Order, I regard it as
a great i; oral and political evil, calculated to
debauch public sentiment and deprave the mor
als ofthe community. It inculcates a system
of deception, falsehood, and fraud, and no con
scientious man, 1 am convinced, can remain a
member. T have known men to come in the
Lodge armed with pistols and deadly weapons,
and the whole machinery of the Order is calcti
h.ted to familiarize the youth, especially, with
scenes of profligacy, deeds oi darkness and of
crime, bv teaching them that their actions are
hill with impenetrable oaths, and shielded per
haps from pur'-hment by the assistance of their
brothers in the Jury box or on the Bench.
In this section of the county the Order is
rapidly sinking, and its obligations are fast fall
ing from the neck of those upon whom they
have been imposed. Surely, Christian men
cannot satisfy their consciences to a secret oath
that requires them to deceive and tell untruths
daiiv. If they respect the obligations ol Chris
tianity, thev must despise those of the Know-
Nothings, and, at the ballot box, unite without
distinction of party, in putting down a power
that is calculated and intended to corrupt all
the springs of social and political fife.
ED MONO SMITH.
New Milford, March 28, IS MM
The undersigned, citizens of New Milford,
have been acquainted with Mr. Smith, many of
us from his boyhood, and we assure the public
unacquainted with him, that he is a man of un
impeachable character, and deserving the full
est credit for truth and veracity.
NORMAN I'l NG LEY,
DAVID MATHEWS,
A. A. PERKINS,
JOHN WILLIAMS.
RUFUS WALWARTH,
D. MCMILLAN,
ELLIOT ALDRICII,
J. H. SUTPHIN,
WM. C. WARD.
A S.VAKE Breaking A MAN'S Kin- —A most
heart-rending transaction occurred at Madison,
I
j Ind., on Tuesday last, to a gentleman named;
) McDonald. He was admiring a beautiful col
i lection of every description of reptiles on exhi
: bit ion there, lie foolishly attempted to handle
a large snake, which coiled around his body,
, and, with his entire strength, succeeded in break
ing three of Mr. McDonald's ribs.— Louisville
' Dem.
|
Trom the Philadelphia Ar?us.
The Democratic Party!
While all sections of parties in New Hamp
l sinre have been absorbed in the Know Nothing
I organization, the Democratic party in that State
maintains nearly its full strength. R losessot^e
two thousand votes, and is beaten by the com
bined factions: but it does not loose its position
j nor its honor.
We notice thit the Democrats of Kentucky
have just thrown down the gauntlet to the Know
Nothing party. So everywhere in the South ;
so everywhere at the .North. Gn the other
hand, throughout ail New England, in the Mid
dle States (with the exception of New York),
and in the South and part ofthe west, the whig
party has ceased to be—has merged its existence
in the secret organization and under the pro
scriptive banner of this new political sect.
in New York the Seward whigs under the
spur of an impulse of self-preservation, haw not
only kept out of this underground conspiracy,
but l ave with great gallantry and spirit, array
ed themselves against it. But they stand alone.
They are perhaps a minority of the whig party
in that State : but in the Union they are not
only in the minority, but without national con
nection or countenance—with their ipader safe
. in the Senate, they perhaps can bear this condi
tffin of comparative isolation, till the turn of
affairs brings them to their true position; but
the chances are equal that they will be thrown
out of ail connection with what was once the
whig party of tiie Union. As to the Demo
cratic party, we think it a matter of sincerest
congratulation that the opposition to it has taken
this shape. They stand uucontaminated by the
stain of this prescriptive faction. From Maine
1 to California, they are free from the beginning.
Their opponents ..ave sefi cCd the principles of
proscription fir the issue of the contest of 185 G.
The Democrats wili accept the issue: and if the
end does not show that the opposition to the
Democracy is now, as ever, fated, predestined,
to confusion, disaster and defeat, then it is be
cause the motives and feelings that have anima
ted and actuated the republican masses of these
States, have ceased to influence their minds.
Spring Ekctifttts.
We notice that, throughout the Stat", a very
general disposition towards a Fusion of the ele
ments opposed to Know-Nothingism was appa
rent at the late township elections. Asamaiter
of course there was a little awkwardness and
constraint ; n 'be first attempt in many places,
; and where thai wa-, the case it was unsuccessful;
but wh ejewr heartily and sincerely entered in
to the ri-.ult wis generally favorable. In Soili
er set county it succeeded in a large majority of
the instances in which it was tried: in Beaver
county an even number of thetownships so far
reported were carried : in Westmoreland county,
the Intelligencer (which is a K. N. paper) says
that the people did pretty much as they pleased,
and that is equivalent to saying that they did
no! do as the K. Ns. pleased : in Chester county
the Fusionists have carried ail lite townships
heard from at the last report : and in Lancaster,
according to the report of the Examiner, the
Fusionists carried forty nut of fifty-five districts.
The li'i's.'rination Commonwealth, gives a com
■ plete list ofthe results in that county, but (ails
to say anything of the issues presented at the
polls.
The Lancaster Examiner says :
"We have examined the returns of the sev
eral townships with some care, and guided by
the best information we have been able to obtain
respecting the issues decided in the various dis
tricts, we have come to the conclusion that at
tiie present time there is an effective and relia-
T anti-Know Not long majority in the county
of from two to three thousand votes. Tiie best
sifting we rati give the returns from the recent
township elections, indicates such to be the
case.
"If at! who are opposed to allowing secret
oath-hound societies to control the politics of the
county v ill untie in support of the same candi
date next fall—and we have no doubt that such
will be the case—they can succeed by at least
twenty-five hundred majority, and probably
more. The Know Nothing flood lias apparently
reached its highest point in this county : and al
though new members are occasionally added,
the withdrawals and expulsions will be more
numerous. One peculiarity of the Know Noth
ing disease is, that no person has it twice. It
resembles the measles in this respect, which
nearly everybody is bound to have once—but
only once.
"The "sober second thought" is already be
ginning to operate. Before next October, many
proud and noble spirits which are already fret
ting under the bonds they so thoughtlessly self
j imposed, will have escaped from the tyranny of
the order and joined the band of outside Ireemen)
"The Beaver drgus is alarmed at the Fusion
movements in that county, and strives to stir up
i old party feelings to prevent their success—
There was a time when artiul appeals to the
: prejudices of Whigs and Demociafs would have
kept thern apart, irreconcilably ;-but that tune
is past, and the sooner this fact is appreciated
j the better. It is one ofthe favorable indications
; ofthe dav that men hitherto divided by the bit—
| terness of "the old grudge" can now be brought
in hearty co-operation.— Pi/ts. Gazette.
"I DIE A Tr.UE AMERICAN."— This excla
; rn3tion, attributed to POOL, the New York pugil
ist, siiortly before his death, was emblazoned
upon a banner at his funeral. The object of
POOL'S Know-Nothing friends, in displaying
this banner, was to induce a riot, if possible, by
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' creating the impression that thp bully prize
fighter had been killed by "bloody foreigners,"
and that his death was to be avenged by his
"American " friends. They could not succeed,
however, in kicking up a riot, as they had hop
ed ; and it now turns out lhat Pool never used
the language attributed to him, and that all the
parties implicated in his murder, Baker, Hvler,
Linn, \an Pelt, Paudeen, M'Laughlin, j'rvin
and AJorrissey—are native-born citizens of the
United States. There is not a foreigner among
them. What is to be done now ? As they are
ail Americans, we presume they are entitled to
a procession for the heroism they exhibited in
murdering Puol without any foreign aid.
T R I 12 .
At a Whig convention held in Philadelphia,
i on the 21th ult., a series ol resolutions wore a
dopted, from which we exiiact the following.
The truth of the charges here preferred against
the Legislature and tiie Councils of Philadel
phia, cannot be questioned by any one who has
observed the conduct of either body. People
may shut their eyes if they choose, for a time
—determined not to see—but they w ill feel it
all the more severely in the end, that they may
depend on.
Those who judge of the tr-'p bv its fruiis —
and we know of no better plan—have here an
opportunity of forming an opinion as to the na
ture and tendencies of Know-Nothingism :
Rcso'vtd , That the progress of this (Know-
Nothing) element in the Commonwealth has
corrupted the integrity of political action, by
substituting responsibility to secret combination,
lor responsibility to public opinion and the
popular will openly expressed. That it has
seriously impaired the confidence between those
who profe.-s th" same opinions, sans the foun
dation of personal and national morality, and
degrades its adherents by unworthy subterfuge*
and evasions—and that its fruits have been
the worst Municipal and State Legislation with
which, for many years, we have been all!icted. .
Rfsohcr', That the effect of this new and
spurious organization n. v be traced too clearly
at Harrisburg, where the State has narrowly
escaped the ignomv oi a Senatorial election,
which was the cor:-.'.- d aim ol pecuniary cor
ruption, a: 1 where we have s . n, through the
agency of our own Representatives—known
members of this secret combination—the Presi
dency of the United States offered to a New
York adventurer, arid tire interests of Pennsyl
vania laic! at his feet to be trampled on.
Jtttofmf, That the cruduct of the present
Legislature, elected by the same secret influ
ence, in increasing the Banking Capita! of the
Commonwealth, and exposing the community
to the inevitable danger of an inflated paper
currency, deserves, and now leceives, our earn
est reprobation.
Resolve!, That with deep humiliation we are
compelled to trace the same influenceand effect
in our Municipal Government, —increased 3nd
increasing expenditure with accumulating debts
as its first fruit—heavier taxation—a system of
pecuniary jobs without restraint, and a course
of personal and ofiicial conduct, as exhibited
in weekly records, having the necessary effect
of destroying public confidence and respect.
LOVE, JEAT.OI.SV AMI M MMM. — A corres
pondent of the Richmond Dispatch, writing
from Wytheville, Va., under date of the 2d inst.
stales that on Saturday night last a most shock
ing tragedy occured in Wytheville, by which
one eft the oldest and most influential citizens of
that town was instantiv kiiled, and three other
persons dangerously wounded. The particulars
of the bloody affair areas follows:—For some
time pas', a man named J. Austin Graham has
been paving his attentions to the daughter of a
wealthy old gentleman named VV. H. Spiller,
who is reported to be worth about $200,000.
Graham was unsuccessful in his suit, from the
fact that the young lady loved, and was en
gaged to be married to a pi ysician named Dr.
Hamet. Graham, on account ot this state of
things, has been very violent, and threatened
to lake the life of his rival the first opportunity
1 lint offered. On Saturday night, about 10 o'
clock, iw entered the Wytheville Hotel, kept
by Mr. Thomas J. Boyd, where Mr. Spiiler, the
father of the young lady, was sitting, in compa
ny with Mr. ('. F. Trigg, Teller of the Exchange
Bank at Abingdon, Mr. C. Cox, an attache of
the hotel, and a Mr. Terry, of Wytheville. Gra
ham drew a revolver, and commenced firing in
to the crowd, killing Mr. Spiller at the first fire.
Mr. Cox is very badlv wounded, but will, it is
thought, recover. Messrs. Terry and Trigg
were wounded, but net seriously. The murder
er fled immediately after the commission of the
bloody deed, and at last account had not been
arrested.
TO-MORROW.
To-morrow is a time that never conies. It is
the rainbow, albeit we see its base resting on
the hill directly in our path, is still, no matter
how far we may advance, just as tar removed
as when we first commenced pursuit. To-mor
row is written by angels among the stars, and
comes net here, save in the dreams ib,at hope
whispers to our heart.
What we most prize and cherish, and ioDg
for, lies oftpu in the to-morrow. Our ideas,
our holiest atlections, our sympathies, our sonis
highest soarings centre there: and wealth, and
fame, and all that man believes his blessing,
beam cut of to-morrow, as the purest diamonds .
ir; the dark, and light us towards their pursuit.
Therefore it is that we honor and love, and wor
ship to-morrow ; We could not livp and enjoy
ourselves without it. It never comes, it is true,
more than the ignis faluus come to those who
follow if—but it brings pleasant dreams, and
fills our slumbering ears with sweetest music,
and binds up our weak hearts with resolutions ;
and for such noble offices it has our hearty den
ison.